"Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by a higher degree of psychic activity, a superior stage of development."

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Source : ernst haeckel “the riddle of the universe”

Ernst Haeckel

#Animal Quotes #Men Quotes #Psychics Quotes

“I have a lot more real friends, than friends that I'm talking to on the Internet. That's not cool, not safe, not fun and most likely not real. Everything is just better when you're not so wrapped up in that. I just think it's lame.”
“New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture.”
“There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”

Source : John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.62, Open Road Media
“The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog Eater.”
“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
“Nobody has any right to tell you what you aren't capable of. If you're meant to, you're able to. There is no such thing as impossible.”
“I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.”
“Once I'm done, I'm done. I'm going to California,”

Source : "Rob Ford tape - full text: Toronto's Mayor at an Etobicoke bar disparaging Karen Stintz, Tim Hudak and Italians". Transcript of an audio tape, nationalpost.com. April 30, 2014.

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